Raindrop Chorus (William Batchelder Bradbury)

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• (Posted 2023-09-27)  CPDL #75788:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 511 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Raindrop Chorus
Composer: William Batchelder Bradbury
Lyricist: R. S. Taylor^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1867 Mason Brothers
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English text

When down the hills
The little rills
No more in glee are flowing,
And fiercely down,
With burning frown
The summer sun is glowing;
’Tis then with joy we greet the gales
That waft us clouds with snowy sails,
From distant regions blowing.

Fall softly o’er the thirsty earth,
O gentle summer rain!
’Till grain-clad hills and fertile vales,
In beauty smile again.

When every flower,
In field and bower
Is drooping low and dying;
When songs of birds,
No more are heard,
Each with the other vying,
’Tis then with joy we greet the gales
That waft us clouds with snowy sails,
O’er hill and valley flying.